Robert C. Hendel, professor of medicine, will present “Assessment of Myocardial Viability and its Impact on Heart Failure Management” on Tuesday, January 17 from 12 to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, 1295 NW 14th Street, South Building, first-floor Seminar Center A and B. This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, call Raquel Mota at 305-243-9067 or [email protected].

Learn more about your basic consumer rights and how Miami-Dade County’s Business Affairs and Consumer Protection Division can serve you. This seminar, sponsored by the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP), will feature Alejandra Castro-Nuñez, public relations and outreach specialist, who will address a broad range of important consumer-related issues including basic consumer rights and consumer protection laws. She will also offer consumer tips on store refund policies, car rentals, bait and switch, tourist traps, restaurants, enforcement of county regulations, towing, motor vehicle repair shops, locksmiths, for-hire transportation, water re-metering, and identity theft.

Coral Gables campus: Tuesday, January 17, from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Whitten University Center, Room 245.

Miller School of Medicine campus: Wednesday, January 18, from 12 to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, Seminar Center A and B.

To register visit ULearn. For assistance with ULearn, call the Professional Development and Training Office at 305-284-5110. To receive email announcements of upcoming seminars, call the FSAP at 305-284-6604.

Shing-Tung Yau, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University, will present “The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions” on Tuesday, January 17 at 5 p.m. at the Wesley Center, 1210 Stanford Drive, on the Coral Gables campus.

String theory says that we live in a 10-dimensional universe but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre geometric spaces known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In this public lecture Professor Yau will tell us the story of these spaces, while illustrating how mathematics and physics can come together to the benefit of both fields. In the process he will describe his personal introduction to geometry, as well as a bit of the history of geometry. In so doing, he hopes to give a sense of how mathematicians think and approach the world and to convey the realization that mathematics, far from being a completely abstract discipline disconnected from everyday phenomena, is crucial to our understanding of the physical world.

For more information, call 305-284-2575 or email Dania Puerto at [email protected].

Pediatric grand rounds will be held on Tuesday, January 17 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Michelle Berkovits, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, will present “Developmental Follow-Up of Children Born at Extremely Low Birth Weights.” For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or [email protected].

Puccini’s operatic take on the Wild West is sprinkled with Hollywood glitz in this splashy production from the Netherlands Opera. The Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West) stars blond bombshell soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the cowgirl Minnie. Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s Hollywood-style production updates this Wild West story to the capitalist culture of Wall Street, perfectly reflecting Puccini’s innovatory spirit. In a new angle on the age-old love triangle theme, corrupt Sheriff Jack Rance (Lucio Gallo) and charismatic criminal Dick Johnson (Zoran Todorovich) vie for the love of glamorous blonde and devout Christian Minnie (Eva-Maria Westbroek), finding her way in a man’s world. Carlo Rizzi’s idiomatic conducting draws excellent singing from the large cast and fine playing from the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in high definition and recorded in true surround sound. This film will screen Sunday, January 15 at noon and Tuesday, January 17 at 7 p.m. Tickets for the opera are $22 general admission and $18 discounted. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.